It's clear that, like 2015 and 2011, 2018 is going to be a year that Bethesda has a lock down when it comes to big blockbuster games and award ceremonies. Information received not too long ago suggested that this would be some kind of a multiplayer experience.

To help iron out some of the kinks that can befall online games - and their offline ones for that matter - Bethesda will be running a Break-it Early Test Application, or beta if you prefer, with more details on that to come.

Check out the multiplayer gameplay for the upcoming multiplayer Fallout title in the video below. Prior to selling out, the Power Armor Edition sold for $199.

On a amusing note, McElroy, who had needled the game's designer Todd Howard recently on social media about targeting West Virginia because of past Polygon press from he and fellow former Polygon writer Griffin McElroy, said he hopes his house survives the "fallout" of the new game that is set to be released this fall.

Fallout 76 will have the same level of customization and detail as its offline singleplayer predecessors, and will take players across six regions with their own "styles, risks and rewards". Among the many features described by Todd Howard was one particularly destructive one; there are a number of nuclear missile silos scattered across Fallout 76's world map.

Reclamation Day, 2102. Twenty-five years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers-chosen from the nation's best and brightest - emerge into post-nuclear America.

It would be odd, however, if there were no references to the way the world is in later games.

As we told you last month, this isn't a traditional Fallout adventure. Fallout 76also features brand new graphics, lighting, and landscape technology. Post-nuclear America has never looked so lovely! Using the C.A.M.P system, you can craft a settlement anywhere, and move it where ever you want. But beware, not everyone will be quite so neighborly.